Shortly after I returned home from from the dentist, I leaned over and had a sudden gush of watery substance drain from my left nostril. It smelled just like the sodium hypochloride that the dentist used to flush my roots. Is it possible to drill through the root into the sinus cavity?

I went to the dentist today and my normal office visit is 10 dollars. But today they charged me fifteen dollars — ten dollars for the official and five dollars for something called the acid etch fee. Is that an actual fee?

Manners Question: I had the first appointment for a crown yesterday. For the better part of the appointment, the assistant would engage in conversation with other assistants while in the room with me. Even worse, during the actual procedure, with dental tools drilling away in my mouth, she and the doctor continued to talk and…

Parents as well as children are disappointed when the adult teeth come in and they are yellower than the baby teeth were. The answer is yes, but with some caveats. The good news is that it doesn?t take much to whiten a child?s adult teeth.